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Wikidata weekly summary #709
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week leading up to 2025-12-08. Missed the previous one? See issue #708.
Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- Well, Well, Bot! - Task/s: Database imports, maintenance.
- RijksBot - Task/s: Adding Rijksmuseum IDs (P13234) to Wikidata items based on a CSV mapping of QIDs to Rijksmuseum URIs.
- CostamiriBot - Task/s: Chess related tasks such as monthly updates to the elo rating of chess players.
- New draft: Wikidata:External identifiers/Obsolescence (opinions are welcome in its talk page)
Events
- Upcoming events:
- How to view #25N with Wikidata? - a community hour with Wikimedia Chile, 21:00 UTC+1 (Time zone converter)
- Fact-Checking with Wikidata Workshop - January 20, 2026, 16:30 ~ 18:00 UTC+1 (Time zone converter) - WMDE's Philippe Saadé will show hands-on methods using the Wikidata MCP to retrieve, filter and classify Wikidata statements with semantic search, reranker LLM and NLI models, registration required.
- (Portuguese) Meeting Point Editatona II - Warm your hands modeling festival on Wikidata: December 10, 2025, 15:00 - 19:00 UTC+1, Porto, Portugal.
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session 9 December, 2025: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, 9 December, 2025 at 9am PT/ 12pm ET/ 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter). WikiProject Personal Pronouns members will lead three implementation sessions to improve the data modeling and ethics of personal pronoun representation in Wikidata based on newly-established best practices and Wikidata policy by remediating legacy statements with participants. No previous Wikidata experience is needed to participate. Sessions will be held on October 14, November 25, and December 9, 2025 at our regular time of 9am PT/ 12pm ET/ 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET. Event page: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group/Project_Series/PersonalPronouns
- Past Events: Digital Humanities Hub: Documenting epigraphic data, Wikidata ontology practice - December 2 & 3, 2025, both 14:00 ~ 15:30 UTC.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs: Wikidata 13th Birthday Celebration in Lafia
- Papers:
- Wikontic: Constructing Wikidata-Aligned, Ontology-Aware Knowledge Graphs with Large Language Models - Chepurova et al., (2025)
- Victims of Posterity. Identifying Gaps on 19th-Century French Art History with Wikidata - first paper in the Wikidata Across the Humanities: Datasets, Methodologies, Reuse collection by the Journal of Open Humanities Data. Authored by Claire Dupin de Beyssat.
- Videos: GB Claude Code AI Agent: Fully Autonomous Wikidata Query & Visualization (Zero Human Intervention)
- (Taiwanese Mandarin) Wikidata Taiwan translation project on "Creating Library Linked Data with Wikibase: Lessons Learned from Project Passage" (as published by the OCLC)
Tool of the week
- Wikiguessr Game Is a Wikidata game it guess the location from Image from anywhere around the world by User: Ranjithsiji
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Remembering Amos Bairoch, co-contributor to Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics Semantic Web of data and consulted often for TiagoLubiana's CellosaurusBot.
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- GBFS feed URL (URL of a GBFS feed for the bicycle-sharing system)
- code of conduct URL (URL of a resource that contains the Code of Conduct of a project or organization)
- Newest External identifiers: BFXC authority ID, Out tag ID, GayCities ID, Fight.ru fighters ID, Personality Database group ID, Codes for the administrative divisions of the People's Republic of China, Macanese company ID, MovieID film ID, Teen Vogue tag ID, CRT Database model ID, PriceRunner product ID, BWB number, Brandenburg School ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- fragrance gender (category for which a fragrance is marketed)
- perfumer (person who created a perfume)
- Discharge regime (The '''[[:en:Discharge regime|discharge regime]]''' can be Glacial, Nival or Pluvial. It can be a combination of 2 : Nivo-pluvial, Pluvio-nival, Nivo-glacial, etc. Be specific (e.g. pluvial tropical, meridional, etc.). Or be complex)
- minimal pair of (lexeme that differ from this one in only one phonological element)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: Cookpad Recipe ID, Sector.sk game ID, Card Player ID, Fragrantica perfume ID, Fragrantica perfume brand ID, My Abandonware theme ID, Identificador Banrep Cultural, izoh.uz word ID, VGChartz game ID, Metacritic video game genre ID, Place Names and Places of Nova Scotia ID, Taking Stock ID, Game Font Library ID, Fragrantica perfume notes ID, EAGER game ID
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- WikiProject Highlights: WikiProject Turkmenistan
- Showcase Items: Goosebumps - 2015 film directed by Rob Letterman
- Showcase Lexemes: course (L3958) - English noun (kɔːrs) meaning "direction of movement", "program of study", or "part of a meal"
Development
- Mobile statement editing:
- It's now possible to edit existing references (phab:T405236)
- We fixed a number of issues such as a problem when adding the first statements to an item (phab:T409069)
- We started work on showing constraint violation indicators (phab:T400676)
- We're working on showing errors in the edit form (phab:T408928)
- We're improving the edit summaries (phab:T411247)
- Wikidata integration in the Wikimedia projects: We continued working on improvements to the Databox Lua module and template
- GraphQL: We continued working on the first version of GraphQL support
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
Weekly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
- Govdirectory weekly focus country: Togo
- Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!